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On 20 Oct 2004 09:08:33 -0700, (Parallax)
wrote:

I have
three kids, 17 yr old daughter, 14 yr old son and 8 yr old daughter so
I have plenty of reason to want to be home.

Interesting. I have a three year old son and a 30 year old wife. I am
43. We are planning to world cruise when he is 7 or so until he is 12
or 13 on the basis that he'll tire of us then G and prefer to be
ashore with "his own kind".

Our logic is that by age seven he will at least keep himself on the
boat and act as look-out. Kids of 9 or 10 can keep half-watches in the
daytime. If we have another kid before we go, the age difference
provides a live-aboard minder for No. 2 Child.

I figure he won't want to do extended cruising again until I'm in my
60s, by which point...

So we are planning a "mid-life sabbatical" of a few years, rather than
wait until my retirement and maybe not do it at all.

So I figure in my circumstances, we have plenty or reasons to go
sailing G.

Carpe bloody diem and all that.

R.